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The main idea of About Music Therapy” on is to inform the general public about music therapy and persuade them to use music therapy if they become sick of maybe choice music therapy as a career. The ancient Greek philosopher Democritus explicitly denied any fundamental need for music: For it was not necessity that separated it off, but it arose from the existing superfluity.” The view that music and the other arts are mere graces is still widespread, although the growth of psychological understanding of play and other symbolic activities has begun to weaken this tenacious belief.

MTV has been highly controversial: some saw as the beginning of an amazing, new, fresh era in music, others considered it to mark the end of true musical talent, as artists have been become more appreciated for their looks instead of their vocal abilities.

He foresaw experimentation with a much richer repertoire of sounds, transcending musical instruments and drawing on whatever sources—certainly electronic ones—are available for realizing the most general orchestra.” A host of composers set out to fulfill this desideratum.

The anthropologist John Blacking famously and influentially described this relationship as one between humanly organized sound” and soundly organized humanity” (1974 1995), while anthropologist Alan Merriam offered a succinct and widely cited model for the sociological study of music as the mediation of concept, behavior, and sound,” with all three abstractions rooted in a cultural context” of community-specific functional values (1964).

In the eighteenth century, classical music could be heard in Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Williamsburg, Charleston, New Orleans, and elsewhere in the homes of talented amateur musicians (most notably Francis Hopkinson and Thomas Jefferson) and in occasional public and private concerts (beginning in the 1730s) performed by local or touring musicians.